Grip equipment

- Cinematographers use lighting equipment to create light.…We use grip equipment to shape that light.…Grip equipment is the lighting equipment…that's placed in front of the light, not on it.…Grip equipment is also the gear…used to mount or hang the light.…Just light barn doors, diffusion material,…and scrims can be used on the light itself.…There are times when similar things have to be used…further away from the light for more controllable effects.…

Solids are like barn doors and the stands…they're mounted on are called c-stands.…Moving the solid away from the light…makes for a harder shadow or cut of the light.…The same goes for nets.…Just like scrims these come as singles…which reduce the light by half a stop,…and doubles that reduce the light by a full stop.…Note that some nets are open at one end,…and have a metal rim around the other.…

The open end allows you to reduce the light…without the shadow that would be caused…by the metal rim at the other end.…There's an entire array of diffusion…materials which soften the light.…

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9/30/2016

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